Word: spike
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spleen; choleric misanthropy consumes him. The cure is drastic: he must spend an afternoon in the Polo Grounds bleachers snarling his defiance at the civilized world-pleading with a succession of Giant pitchers to skull a batter and "stick it in his ear," begging every Giant base runner to spike an infielder and" chop his legs off." So it was on Sept. 29, 1954. Hano began the day by snapping at his wife. He spent the early morning standing in line waiting to buy a ticket to the bleachers. By 10 a.m. he was comfortably situated on a hard bench...
...resistance. This course, the aim of Western foreign policy for the past four years, was assured only two months ago with the ratification of the Paris pacts. In the near future, the West cannot afford to lose German forces and bases. Already the Austrian treaty has driven a neutral spike into the Western defense forcing removal of troops from Austria and cutting off Italy from direct communication with NATO forces in Germany. The neutralization of Germany would force a complete realignment of defenses and would probably mean a large-scale withdrawal of U.S. troops from Europe...
...stories about the Main Line's celebrated Biddies. Most of the book is about her father. Colonel Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, a punch-and-judo-throwing millionaire who led fully as strenuous a life as his good friend Teddy Roosevelt. As an amateur boxer, the bald, spike-mustached aristocrat fought under the name of "Tim O'Biddle." The great Ruby Bob Fitzsimmons called him one of the best amateur fighters he ever saw. In 1908 he went four roughhouse rounds with Philadelphia Jack O'Brien. About that time, Biddle took over a Bible class, started a movement...
...With the B. & M., McGinnis now controls 80% of all the railroad business in New England. In his corner in this fight, McGinnis had such prominent New Englanders as Burton M. Cross, former governor of Maine, and Francis P. Murphy, onetime governor of New Hampshire, plus Pierre ("Spike") Dumaine, brother of Frederic ("Buck") Dumaine, from whom McGinnis had wrested the New Haven. Spike Dumaine, who felt that he had been forced to take a back seat in running the industrial empire left by his father, was boss of the New England Transportation Co., a bus subsidiary of the New Haven...
...prewar college campuses, most boxing coaches seemed determined to turn fistfighting into a proper form of fun and games. They taught all their young gentlemen to spar like featherweights. Such old-timers as Navy's Spike Webb (TIME, Aug. 2), Princeton's Spider Kelly and Yale's Mosey King turned even their heavyweights into Fancy Dans. It was all very civilized-and just a little too light-foot to please the crowds...